If your work allows SSH connections out of the firewall you can use that to bounce the connection off an intermediate server. Although it's tricky to setup it's more secure than any POP or SMTP connection normally is. You'd have to find out from the sysadmin whether they let you do that.

Rob07/02/2005 1:11am

my PC is so locked down here I can't even get to a DOS prompt. I'll just try it when I get home and see what happens... thanks anyway...

Rob07/02/2005 8:30am

OK... so it's definitely a firewall issue in terms of at work. I am now able to receive emails at home, but sending them now gives me the following error:
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myusername@gmail.com ((null))

We're rejected by the server:
No 'from' address in email.
Server error message.
No 'from' address in email.
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GMail help also. I am also having trouble with gmail access. I have followed the instructions:
(a) installed 1.88 v5 of i.scribe
(b) unpacked SSL plugin into i.scribe directory
(c) changed the account setup to
send
smtp.gmail.com:587

receive
pop.gmail.com:995

(d) checked both send and receive for SSL

I can successfully send messages, but I cannot receive messages. I get the following message in the log file